AS230: Dr. Kevin Folta

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🗓️ 7 April 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In light of all this GMO debate, Dr. Kevin Folta was kind enough to hop on the show and educate us! Kevin is the professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. He doesn’t like the word “advocate,” but he has been very vocal about GMOs and dispelling the misconceptions … Continue reading AS230: Dr. Kevin Folta →

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0:00.0	You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 230 nice even
0:36.2	number there and I'm your host Thomas Smith got a great interview for you today
0:41.1	joining me right now is Dr. Kevin Folta.
0:44.0	How you doing?
0:45.4	Oh, really great.
0:46.4	Thanks for having me aboard.
0:47.5	Hey, thanks for coming on.
0:48.5	I really appreciate it.
0:49.6	I reached out to Kevin and he pretty much instantaneously said,
0:54.2	let's do it.
0:54.9	And I love that kind of attitude.
0:56.2	That's a really encouraging attitude,
1:00.5	especially from a I'm just sitting here in my office doing my work and it's nice to take a break and be able to talk
1:15.2	about policy and topics with you. This is good.
1:18.8	Excellent. So I'm going to ask you the tough questions. How much is Monsanto paying you to come on my podcast right now?
1:25.2	That's what I want to know.
1:26.4	The tough questions.
1:28.4	Well, it depends on who you ask.
1:30.8	Yeah.
1:31.8	If you ask my bank account or ask my retirement or me, they'll tell you zero.
1:38.0	If you ask any of the activists, they'll certainly tell you that I'm well embedded. Eric Lipton of the New York Times will
1:44.3	tell you that I'm a crucial embedded strategic centerpiece of the Monsanto plan
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